Letters to the Chancellor.

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Lemn Sissay

Being Chancellor at The University of Manchester is one of the highlights of my life. It must be similar for students as they graduate towards or from this great institution. I was voted for by Read more [...]

HIGH FLIGHT.

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Lemn Sissay

American John Magee, who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, was 19 when he wrote High Flight in August 1941. It is 75 years since then. I made a report about him (and the poem) in 2007 for BBC Read more [...]

Two reports from my files.

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Lemn Sissay

Here is the first time the word "aggressive" was documented in my life. It reads "he could very easily become extremely aggressive". There is no evidence presented to indicate how. The second Read more [...]

21 Days: From Baaba Maal at Womad to Marcus Samuelsson at Ginny’s in NYC.

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Lemn Sissay

This blog covers the 21 days which follow 24th July. It's 301 days since my installation as Chancellor at University of Manchester. We begin this blog with the second night at the proms. In the photo Read more [...]

Working in the arts with Care Leavers.

Posted on August 13, 2016 by Lemn Sissay

I am going to talk about the surge of work in the arts specifically for the care leaver. I hope this may help Anyone who is working with care leavers. Please read about the story of the rights Read more [...]

Hardys Well and The Condemned Poem

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Lemn Sissay

I am in Washington DC and I've just heard the distressing news that Hardys Well in Manchester is to be demolished along with the much loved eponymous poem. It is the first public art poem in what Read more [...]

From Oscar Wilde’s cell to The Royal Albert Hall. The past 15 days (280)

Posted on July 23, 2016 by Lemn Sissay

This blog covers the past 15 days of a total of 280 days since my installation as Chancellor at University of Manchester. These are the highlights. I will shape my blogs in this way until the first Read more [...]

The Christmas Dinner 2016: We crowdfund goodwill.

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Lemn Sissay

The Christmas Dinner is in the Observer today as one of fifty new radical ideas. So here's where The Christmas Dinners are at: This year The Christmas Dinner will be in Oxford, London Liverpool Leeds Read more [...]

22 days of my life. Hair cuts & Baggage.

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Lemn Sissay

This is Subrina. She cuts my hair . The afro has gone. But it went the day before a BBC broadcast 'Portrait of.." (click pic) In which I have an Afro. The portrait is in The Foundling Museum This Read more [...]

The Listening Post

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Lemn Sissay

"The Listening Post" was commissioned by 14-18 NOW: World War One centenerary art commissions and performed at the National Commemoration of the Centenerary of the Battle of the Somme in Heaton Read more [...]